Google Material Design Lite for Rails
Material Design Lite lets you add a Material Design look and feel to your websites. It doesn’t rely on any JavaScript frameworks and aims to optimize for cross-device use, gracefully degrade in older browsers, and offer an experience that is immediately accessible. Get started now
Installation
To your Rails application's Gemfile, add
gem 'google_mdl'And then run
$ bundle
Javascripts
Do one of the following:
To your application.js file, add:
//= require material.min
OR
If you're using coffee, add
#= require material.min
in your application.js.coffee.
Stylesheets
Do one of the following:
To your application.css , add
*= require material.min
OR
If you're using sass, add
@import
in your application.scss.
@import "material.min";
Icons
Material Design Lite uses a font called 'Material Icons'. You can either load this font from google, or host it yourself.
Load font from google
Add the following line to your application.html.erb view layout file,
in the <head> section:
<%= stylesheet_link_tag "https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons" %>
OR
Host font locally
Use the material_icons gem to host the font locally.
Documentation
Getting start with Material Design Lite(MDL)
Contributing
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/varmad/google_mdl. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.
License
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.